JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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taj
Cleo, I thought your 8:52 comment was uncharacteristically mean. I respect your stance on monarchy, though I'm a bit more ambivalent. I tend more to sympathy. I'm confident both of us live easier lives, knowing we have much more freedom to enjoy ourselves, and live as we see fit.
Posted in: Cheer up
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taj
Hachimike, While I agree that the people in Iwate and Sendai really need support and cheering up, many of them have work to do and activities, as they are nearer to home. These poor folk being housed in Tokyo are likely from Fukushima. There homes may have been washed away or they may be standing, but they have no idea when or if they be able to even root through the mess for souvenirs. Don't assume that they are in any less need of cheering up!
Posted in: Cheer up
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anglootaku and Tahoochi, you can find the video if you google "dog rescued tsunami". SMH.com.au has it. Angloo, FYI, people need water, long before they need food. And 3 weeks without food isn't actually that long for an adult. Dangerously long, yes. Incredibly long, no.
Posted in: Rescued dog back with owner after drifting at sea for 3 weeks
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888naff, What is the "social impact" of urban youth spending a whole year growing 35 plants on public land?
Posted in: 2 men arrested for growing hemp in Tokyo park
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888naff and LoneWolfwfk, I don't think it's funny at all. It's sad. This one simple plant has many useful functions, so it also has many industries (pharma, liquor, fabric, food oil, fuel oil, lubricant, ...) ready to demonize it. And demonize it they have. And a alot of people bought into the refer madness. And then another group, has been quietly cross-breeding and developing newer and better and more THC-potent strains over the decades. And then there's the whole black-market/crime fighting industry that thrives off the ignorance.
Really, growing pot should be a healthy hobby in which teenagers learn a bit of horticulture, nurturing, and patience. Take a swing at the black market. Make it legal to possess up to say, 30 seedlings and 5 adult plants. Alaska used to allow,... I think it was 3 adult plants, per person. Bastion of the land of the free, that was. And then they too got the prohibition.
Posted in: 2 men arrested for growing hemp in Tokyo park
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taj
I read (many years ago) that the jute industry in the South Pacific needed protection and nurturing at the end of the war, and that was another reason why hemp was out-lawed in Occupation Japan.
Now it is possible to get a hemp growing license, regulation is VERY strict.
Posted in: 2 men arrested for growing hemp in Tokyo park
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taj
As for how Ban-chan got water, it has snowed numerous times over the past 3 weeks. Dogs are probably better equipped to get water from eating snow than humans, but there were also probably puddles of meltwater that collected in bends and curves of twisted debris.
Posted in: Rescued dog back with owner after drifting at sea for 3 weeks
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taj
I saw the discovery and rescue on the news over the weekend. Now just this headline brings tears to my eyes.
I'm so happy to hear that the evacuation centre allows pets!
Posted in: Rescued dog back with owner after drifting at sea for 3 weeks
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taj
a park near Yotsuya station?
What parK?
Posted in: Cherry blossom viewing parties quieter than usual in Tokyo parks
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taj
And now our tax money is going to be wasted prosecuting these green thumbs. What a waste.
Posted in: 2 men arrested for growing hemp in Tokyo park
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taj
I think a much better move would be to donate a number of rooms for evacuee families. They're going to be empty for a while, anyway. Why not let a village from Fukushima live on one floor while they wait for the plant crisis to get sorted out?
Posted in: Grand Hyatt Tokyo launches 'Smiles for All' campaign
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smith, you are free to be as angry as you like. scream, shout, get it all out. hopefully that will help you lower your blood pressure.
Rage does nothing to solve the on-going crisis though. Emotion rarely goes hand in hand with logic. Cool analysis in the near future will be a better response than fits of rage right now.
But as I said, do feel free to look after your own health by cursing and swearing and shouting at the TV or posting at me, if it helps.
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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taj
Was that in the mid 90's, wanderlust? Or more recently?
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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taj
Hmmm. Shorter lines at FujiKyu? Very tempting. Or are they also running the rides less frequently to save electricity? At any rate, I think I'd be a bit embarrassed to be going out to an amusement park so very soon.
Posted in: All's not well at Tokyo Disneyland after quake
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Smith, it wasn't amakudari. And no, I'm not ever going to say TEPCO did nothing wrong. I just hate seeing people so ready with the pitchforks.
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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taj
"headed there at the executives expense." should read = "for the executives benefit." (thinking of Ken Lay and that ilk, ditching their stocks before things tanked and leaving the employees SOL).
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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taj
@Beer99, Please look up the meaning of amakudari. Masataka Shimizu joined Tepco in 1968, right out of university.
@sillygirl, Do you assume his paycheck is disproportionately large? My guess, and unfortunately I can't find these details, is that it wouldn't be even double what I earn, as a regular mid-career office worker in Tokyo. Possibly triple, but not something in an order of magnitude larger, like with American companies. Japanese execs don't bring home the huge salaries while keeping their masses of employees struggling at the poverty line, or headed there at the executives expense. Perhaps you mean that any paycheck, even a small one, means that he owes his life. Meh. What good does that do? Does it stop the problem? Does it help the area farmers? Does it protect the workers in the plants? No. It just makes his grandkids sad.
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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@Beer99. Are you saying that Mr. Shimizu is a retired politician or bureacrat? I wasn't aware of that. I'd assumed he was a life-long TEPCO empployee, who has had the misfortune of being the guy at the helm when the shit-tornado hit.
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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what makes you think he's "fleeing to hospital to evade responsibilities"?
You think 'death by stroke' wouldn't be just another way out? He does no good to anyone dead. Show a little humanity, people.
Posted in: TEPCO to scrap 4 reactors at crippled nuclear plant; president hospitalized
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taj
Zenny, the 1st and 2nd wife speculation comes from the fact that the 29-year old is described only as "wife" of the father, and never as "mother" of the boy.
One explanation would be that there was an earlier wife, who gave birth. Another possibility is that the woman who gave birth to the boy was never married to the father. A third possibility is that the 29-year old wife was, in fact, the boy's natural mother, but she's not reported as such, she's not listed in the family registry.
At any rate, it's still a sad story.
Posted in: 8-year-old boy stabbed to death in Nagoya home